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ai6yr, to Software

😅BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

geospacedman,
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@samthurston @ai6yr Or rename your street to FEB30 and watch all the council Excel tables convert every street address to an invalid date format error.

Mehrad, to microsoft
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Few months back Teams stopped supporting , and their nasty argument was "you can use our web app from your browser". Today I got this in my browser which is .

Unfortunately I have to use Microsoft Teams because my university and the audience all have contract with Microsoft 🙄

Yeah, keep fooling yourself that :microsoft: ❤️ :linux:

geospacedman,
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@mikerspencer @Mehrad For me the teams linux app still mostly works (I think there's some graphics driver glitches) but the web version seems fine with firefox for me.

nixCraft, to linux
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only old linux desktop users will remember this desktop effect. can you name it?

geospacedman,
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@nixCraft Ah I remember that, it was in the Year of The Linux Desktop...

nixCraft, to random
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Is "fixed stuff" a good git commit message for a big project? I'm asking for myself 🤔

geospacedman,
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@nixCraft Should be "possibly fixed stuff" because you don't know until the CI job has run.

nixCraft, to random
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Throwback time! Calling all coding veterans: Where did you stash your code before cloud repositories? 🤔

geospacedman,
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@nixCraft like this, except without a box, and scattered all over the desk.

Cmastication, to random
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Today I learned...

geospacedman,
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@Cmastication "Hey, four discs, nice".

nixCraft, to random
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Sam Altman tells a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return! — OpenAI business plan.

Sam Altman tells a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return!

geospacedman,
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@nixCraft That Altman business plan in full:

Cmastication, to random
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I bought a used foot pedal for my Mac. It didn't have software for a Mac available and it does not show up as a keyboard or mouse. So I had to learn how to read usb input using python. Fun little yak shaving event. I have it plumbed up to turn speech to text on and off. Kinda fun.

geospacedman,
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@Cmastication Is there not an event-based API that waits for events on that USB device so you don't have to do a loop with a delay?

geospacedman,
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@Cmastication ahah... does the .read() wait until it gets some data?

geomob, to random German
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Long-time Geomob London sponsor Geolytix https://geolytix.co.uk are recruiting for three technical roles:

• Data Engineer

• Head of Engineering

• SQL Query Analys

See all the roles over on their blog: https://geolytix.co.uk/blog/tag/career/

geospacedman,
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@geomob More people might actually see it and learn here.

geospacedman,
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@stevenfeldman maybe geomob won't boost job ads with no salary. Or maybe they'll ask their sponsors why they don't apply best practice for recruiting. Small hills and all that...

geospacedman,
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@geomob But... https://www.reed.co.uk/recruiter-advice/why-you-should-always-state-salary-in-your-job-ads/

sil, to UKpolitics
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OK, UK types, it’s council elections day. When you go out to vote, remember that you need to take photo ID with you. Yes, it is bad that you have to do so because it harms people without IDs more than it helps stop basically-nonexistent “voting fraud”, and yes this is a flagrantly partisan measure to benefit the Tories, and yes it was put through Parliament with barely any discussion or opposition, but you still have to do it. Don’t take it out on polling station volunteers, either.

geospacedman,
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@sil If I turn up without ID, does that get counted? Am tempted to turn up without ID, then come back later with ID (because I do want to vote), in the hope of boosting the "didn't have photo ID" numbers as protest...

Mehrad, to academicchatter
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I wonder if it is even ethical to enlist affiliation to the university if my funding comes directly from a funding institute, I'm buying and using my own hardware and software (down to the HDMI cable and mouse), and the data is also coming directly from another organization. The coffee and food is also off my own pocket.

The only things they provide are electricity (computer, coffee), water (coffee), and internet.

Let know your thoughts.

@academicchatter

geospacedman,
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@Mehrad @academicchatter are you managing the research funding account? Did you get support in grant writing? Do you get post-grant award support? Are you going to pay open-access publishing costs? What about office space?

geospacedman,
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@Mehrad The PI clearly wants you. Enough that you could probably quit and set up a company and do the work as a consultant. Could you do that profitably?

nixCraft, to random
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OpenAI is hiring a personal security guard (aka bodyguard) for execs and key employees with a concealed carry card in all 50 states in the USA https://openai.com/careers/executive-protection-operator Yeah, probably smart move to hire bodyguards when you're responsible for destroying society and stealing everyone’s work and destroying tons of jobs. These people are against UBI and regulations for AI, too. Too much money and power corrupt everything, and these tech bros are no exception.

geospacedman,
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@nixCraft I'd want a security guard if A Billionaire was suing me and there was a chance that a horde of simps were coming after me to get his attention...

Cmastication, to random
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I’m considering starting a movement to support “paste as plain text by default”… should I form a political party, a religion, or a militant insurgency? I’m new to this social movement thing…

From: @cmconseils
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/112043506982078981

geospacedman,
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@Cmastication @cmconseils Can you 'Mericans get it as a proposition on a ballot paper?

geospacedman, to random
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A GeoPackage is worth more than a SHP, right?

Cmastication, to random
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It feels like the endless debate about “are LLMs thinking” largely misses the point. A better question is “are LLMs useful?” And if they are, we should understand their strengths and weaknesses at different tasks.

Endless pontificating on the meaning of “intelligence” is fun though. I suggest pairing it with a good bourbon. But once you sober up, go build useful things with useful tools.

From: @brook
https://sunny.garden/@brook/112148815310449061

geospacedman,
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@Cmastication @brook None of the techbros were interested when it was a man in a box having a chinese conversation... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Cmastication, to random
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I’ve written a book with markdown and still can’t recall which brackets to use where.

From: @jschauma
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geospacedman,
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@Cmastication @jschauma I usually just give up and write the html tag instead

Mehrad, to ai
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Have you seen the new kid in the block? now has ... wait for it 🥁🥁 an "AI chat".

geospacedman,
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@Mehrad AAAAAAAAARGH. Time to find a new ethically-sound search engine...

Cmastication, to random
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I have a zero tolerance policy for being scolded. So I quickly blocked all the folks who self actualize through pedantry. Makes for a nice experience.

From: @mattblaze
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/112145765633575934

geospacedman,
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@Cmastication "self actualize" should be hyphenated.

millerdl, to random
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thought from a meeting this morning:

a kind of anti-Turing test where to confirm that a person is not an AI, they would be asked a question to which is answer is "I don't know" (rather than, say, a fancy Markov chain of nonsense)

geospacedman,
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@millerdl I may have broken the AI with this.

geospacedman, to random
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people, how do you pronounce x <- 1? And is that any different to how you pronounce x = 1?

geospacedman, to random
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I love that google tells me my google drive storage is almost full and then helpfully tells me it'll be deleting all my jamboard files because they're sunsetting jamboard this year.

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